Background:For three years after separation, children aged 15, 12 and 10 years had at the mother’s insistence spent time with the father only at the mother’s house. The mother then severed all of the children’s interaction with the father for a period and recommenced access only if the father was supervised. The mother proposed that the father be eliminated or excluded from the children’s lives. The father contended the mother had exerted so much pressure upon the children they were induced to reject him and to resist any interaction with him (alienation). The mother contended that she supported the children’s relationships with the father and their individual rejection of him and that the children’s resistance to interacting with the father was due to their own adverse experiences wi

Background:The parents were together for two years until they separated in 2001, when their daughter was only eight months old. The father has remarried.
Relations between the pair have been so strained that they have only communicated by email and they have been arguing about which high school she should attend.
They have been battling in the courts since 2003, when the Family Court made orders dealing with their daughter’s surname, where she should live and how much contact each parent should have.
In 2007 the Family Court ordered the parents should have equal shared custody of their child but she should live primarily with her mother.

Background:The parties began a relationship when Ms Green was 12 and Mr Hann was 16 years old. They married in 1993. Two children were born of the marriage.
The parties separated in 2004 when the children were aged about 3 ½ years and 18 months old respectively. The children then lived with their mother and spent regular time with their father, including overnight time. Contact between the children and their father proceeded without incident until 2009.
However in 2009, the children began to exhibit challenging and concerning behaviour both at school and towards the father.

Background:This is a case of an Anglo-Australian father and a Chinese-born mother.
There was a high level of parental conflict during and after the breakdown of the relationship.
After separation, the mother and father lived in separate states. They had two children aged 11 and 9. The father had then re-partnered.
In dispute over 'contact with the children' after separation, the mother made allegations of child sexual abuse against the father. She also made allegations of physical violence by the father against her and the children.
These allegations were found to be baseless, contrived and pre-meditated by the Court.
The mother also engaged in behaviour intended to incite hatred in the children against the father. This alienation proceeded to a degree where the children did not want t